Final ruling issued in fight between survivors of St. Anne’s residential school and Canada over disclosure

April 11, 2025

A decades-long court fight between survivors of abuse at a notorious Catholic-run residential school in Fort Albany, and Canada, over disclosure of evidence, appears to have ended with a March 20, 2025 decision in Ontario Superior Court.

Led by former student and Fort Albany Chief, Edmund Metatawabin, the survivors of St. Anne’s had been seeking access to documents from criminal and civil trials connected to abuse allegations at the school, in order to consider reopening compensation claims.